When should I buy ticket for my fiancee

[bora bora 1]

I guess it seems weird that I bought the plane ticket before the interview because I never understand why people set wedding dates before the K1 interview, but oh well.

Well, here's our story:

We found out my husband's interview date in the end of January. I bought our tickets here on the last day of January and hubby's interview date was March 13th. I was definetly going to the interview so it didn't matter that I bought mine or not for that time. We figured that since we were going to buy mine it'd be better to get them both. My husband is from Manaus, Amazonas (in the far north of Brazil) so he had to travel almost 4 hours to attend the interview in Rio de Janeiro. So my husband bought his one-way ticket from Manaus to Rio soon after I got the tickets between the U.S. and Brazil. When my husband left Manaus, he left for good.

We coordinated our flights so that I was arriving from Miami and he from Manaus at the same time in Rio...we also bought tickets for the same flight from Rio back to Miami - and that date was only 4 days AFTER the interview. Let's just say that we were pretty sure, right? Seems crazy now, but at the time it didn't. Our interview was on a Tuesday and it was super easy and we were approved in like 6 minutes. We went back 2 days later (Thursday) to get the visa and then were on our way to the U.S. on Saturday (if I remember correctly).

Everything worked out as planned - except that Bush arrived in Sao Paulo on the same day as we did and my husband's plane was delayed. I FREAKED out when I got to Rio and hubby wasn't there. We did meet up in the hotel later. My baby had saved the hotel name/address/number and called to say he was on his way.

Edited April 2, 2008 by bora bora